US Patent Issued to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY on May 6 for "Method for producing multi-hydroxy derivatives of polyunsaturated fatty acids" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,736, issued on May 6, was assigned to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for producing multi-hydroxy derivatives of polyunsaturated fatty acids" was invented by Jeong Woo Seo (Daejeon, South Korea), Jong Jae Yi (Daejeon, South Korea), Sun Yeon Heo (Daejeon, South Korea), Young Bae Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Chul Ho Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Baek Rock Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Hyun Ju (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hack Sun Choi (Jeju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a novel enzyme capable of producing multi-hydroxy derivatives fr...